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  1. Dromineer Castle

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    it is lighted by large quadrangular windows, the best sign of its modern date.
    The Cantwells lived in Dromineer Castle at the time of the Cromwellian confiscations. The Manor of Dromineer was then made over to the Duke of Ormond. Aghbegg, Killeilog and Carrigine were made over to Joseph Fox and Niochlas White.
    O'Donovan states "Tradition ascribes the building of Dromineer castle to the Butlers, and not to the O'Kennedys.
    The castle of Drominner was built at a time when the O'Kennedys had lost their influence".
    Near Dromineer Castle is a small church, which must have belonged to the castle in the days of the Cantwells.

  2. Dromineer Castle

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    Dromineer castle belonged to the Cantwells. "The Manor of Dromonoire, Aghbegg, Killeilog, Carrigine, 670 acres belonged to John Cantwell of Cantwell Court" (Down Survey).
    This family came with the first Nenagh Butler about the year 1200. They were driven away by the Irish in the second half of the fourtheenth century but returned again in the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, when the Butlers were reinstated by that king. It was after their return that the castle of Dromineer was built probably in the seventeenth century.
    The castle, which stands on the quay of Dromineer on teh shores of Lough Derg, five miles from Nenagh in North Tipperary is a square building of considerable height and strenght, but not old.
    When complete this building at Dromineer was fifty-one feet from east to west and thirty-nine feet from north to south. It is a four storeyed - high house and

  3. Disasters

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    Living as we do near Lough Derg and the River Shannon there are many records of loss of life by drowning of which the following are records.
    In the year 1856 (April) three young Englishmen (names unknown) believed to have been officers of the British army were visiting a young man of the country gentleman class at Dromineer, Co. Tipperary on the shores of Lough Derg, seven miles north of Killaloe. Henry Homles (people of his name still live at Dromineer) owned a fast sailing yacht. One evening the four young men visited Mountshannon on the opposite shore of the lake. It was almost night fall when they set out to return to Dromineer and a strong wind was blowing. Tale or tidings of the yacht or of

  4. Monsea and Killodiernan Parishes

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    This parish comprises the district of Killodiernan, Monsea Dromineer and Knigh. It is situated in Lower Ormond. The parish of Killodiernan contains 3,476 acres. In 1837 its population was 1,348.
    Monsea parish is situated chiefly in Lower Ordmond, part of it is in Arra. Monsea in Irish is Mong Saoi which means a soft, uneven surface. The old church in Monsea is about 400 years old. It is built in the reign of Henry VIII.
    Dromineer.
    The name is derived from Druim Inbhir, which means a ridge at the mouth of the river. The old church of this parish was built a very long time ago. It was probably built by the head of the McGrath clan in the 11th century or 900 years ago. It was built of very large blocks of granite and slate stones got on the margin of Lough Derg.
    The castle of Dromineer is not old. It belonged to John Cantwell. It was not built by the O'Kennedys. Near Dromineer castle is a small ruined church which must have belonged to the Cantwells. The Cantwells were Anglo-Normans.
    Knigh
    The Irish word for Knigh is 'cnó' which means 'nuts'. The church of Knigh belonged to the Cannons regular

  5. A Legend of Dromineer Castle

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    and Keevan Connors. Thus ends the Legend of Dromineer Castle.

  6. An Old School

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    There was an old school near the quay of Dromineer. The windows were dark and big. The school-master's name was Mr. Walsh.
    There were about 300 children attending the school. The scholars used sit on the floor on bags. Mr Walsh sat on a small stool in front of his pupils.
    There is a field at the back of the school where the scholars used to play.
    Children attended this school from Puckane, Dromineer, Kildangan and Carrig. In 1790 this school ceased. The ruins of this school are still to be seen near Dromineer.
    Supplied by M. Cleary Kildangan.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “At the butt of the Rock here in Carrig there was a Church which served the parish before the present church on the top of the hill was built (1833-34).”

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    At the "butt of the rock" here in Carrig there was a church which served the parish before the present church on the top of the hill was built. (1833-34)
    There was a row over the site for the present church between parishioners from the lower end of the parish and those from the Ballycommon side. The Dromineer (lower) people objected to walking to the top of the hill and wanted it built on the old site. However it was built on the new site On the first day on which Mass was celebrated the Dromineer crowd marched to the church and on over past the gate to the South side of the grounds (to show they could walk farther than the Church, a question of defiance).
    The Ballycommon men come later and took up their position on the N. side To this day the custom lasts when people arrive for Mass and even the death of horses and ponies from eating palm trees on the S. side did not make Dromineer peopld change over to the side where there are no palm trees.
    The above from Dan Devaney, Ballycommon, Postman who heard it from his father years ago.

  8. Hurling and Football Matches

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    About fifty years ago there was a hurling match in Killodiernan Parish. A team from Puckane and a team from Dromineer were playing.
    There were eighteen men on each. The Sunday before the match Puckane and Dromineer went up to their grounds to practise. If any of that team did not suit they put other men in their places.
    The way they played the match was this:-
    They threw up the ball between them and whoever got it over the Nenagh river the most times won.
    On this Sunday Puckane won. The score was Puckane = 18 Dromineer = 16. The players never dressed up in any togs. They only hurled in breeche's and shirts.
    The reffereeing was done in this way: If any one commited a foul the refferee did not blow a whistle, because he had none. Instead be waved a white flag. When the players saw this flag, they stopped hurling.

  9. A Murder Story

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    There is a castle at Lough Derg which was owned by the O'Kennedys at first but when Cromwell came to Ireland he gave it to one of his soldiers. The soldier he gave it to was very fond of drinking and dancing. So that he nearly always had dances and concerts in Dromineer Castle.
    This time also the Irish people were being treated very badly by the English. The Irish people were starving and had no homes to live in. On a certain night there was a dance in Dromineer Castle and all the gentry were gathered together drinking. dancing and singing. and they had all sorts of merriment; some of the gentry were drunk.
    The Irish hears about the dance and they all went over to the castle window to look in. When they saw

  10. A Legend of Dromineer Castle

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    I saw Aileen and O'Brien in deep and earnest conversation. I heard her appeal to him to make her his wife before she brought shame on her ould father's head, and he telling her to be patient, and that he could not marry her yet, for if he did he'd have no chance of Dromineer Castle as his brother had an heir. He persuaded her to come in out of the night air and they retraced their steps to Aileen's home.
    "But next morning there was nothing but uproar; there was nothing but red coats and naked bayonets to be seen everywhere. The soldiers was in search of O'Brien, for there was fresh proofs of him having murthered Friar O'Flaherty, because he had threatened to excommunicate himself on account of his wicked ways. But O'Brien nor Aileen were to be found. Everyone said their own say, by I knew my own know, which was more than any of them knew, on account of what I had heard under the hedge. Aileen's poor father died soon after of a broken heart, and was buried under a tree which was planted the day Aileen was born. Of Aileen & O'Brien nothing has since been heard, though it is 16 years ago." The fishermen now went on their own way.
    When Geraldine recovered Kevin Connors took her to Dromineer in his boat. When the reached

  11. The Old Graveyards

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    There are five graveyards in this parish. These are situated in Kilodiernan, Knigh, Monsea, Dromineer and in Cloughprior.
    All the churchyards are still in use. Cloughprior churchyard is round in shape.
    There are ruins of churches in Kilodiernan, Knigh, Dromineer and Cloughprior. There is a Protestant Church in Monsea.
    There are crosses and tombs in all these graveyards and dates and names on them. These crosses are made of wood and stone. Some people are buried within the ruins of the churches.
    Unbaptised children were buried in the same churchyard as the people in Monsea, Dromineer, Cloughprior and in Knigh.
    Collected by:-
    May McLoughney
    Lahorna
    Nenagh
    Obtained from,
    Mr J. Heffernan,
    Lahorna,
    Nenagh.
    Age 50 years.

  12. Graveyards

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    In the parish of Puckane is Dromineer graveyard. It is situated by the lake. There is an old ruin in it, there are only four different families buried there. Once there was an old Protestant Major, and before he died, he requested to be buried there. So a corner was cut off for him alone.

  13. A Legend of Dromineer Castle

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    took the paper and read:-
    "On Island more there is a young boatman, known by the name of Keevan Connors, the reputed son of Felim Connors. He is not his son, nor is that his right name. He is Gerald O'Brien, heir of Dromineer Castle. So help me God, as this dying declaration is true. Fr. Anselmo knows the rest - Dermot O'Reilly.
    Four men now entered bearing a coffin. A grave was dug and this man buried.
    Geraldine and her nurse, Kathleen were now watching out for O'Kennedy O'Brien. A boat appeared and they thought it was O'K. A man alighted and played a melody on a harp. Geraldine again fainted and was taken to her chamber by Kathleen.
    O'Kennedy & Fr. Anselmo were surprised at the music so they set out at a lively pace across the water. When they came to Dromineer there was Kevin Connors wallowing in gore. A blood-stained dagger was beside a big man, also in the boat. The attendants came down to the quay & when O'Kennedy gave the signal they seized the murderer and dragged him into the dungeon.
    The bore the wounded man to the castle & nursed him back to health. O'Kennedy

  14. The Old Graveyards

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    Kilodiernan is in the townland of Johnstown. It is round in shape. Once there was a church in the graveyard but now only its ruins are to be seen.
    Knigh grave-yard is in the townland of Knigh. Both Catholics and Protestants are buried in it. The ruins of a church are still to be seen there.
    Cloughprior is in the townland of Carney. There are ruins of a church there. Within those ruins there are Protestants buried.
    In the graveyard there is one wooden tomb. Many of the tombs are decorated with fancy work. Dromineer graveyard is in the townland of Dromineer. It is still in use.
    Monsea graveyard is in the townland of Ardrigane. The ruins of a church are there. in the middle of the graveyard there is a Protestant church. It is not in use now.
    Long ago unbaptised children were not buried in consecrated ground. They were buried outside the bounds. It is not so now as the unbaptised

  15. A Legend of Dromineer Castle

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    Dromineer Castle, which stands on that portion of the River Shannon called Lough Derg (five mile north-west of Nenagh) was in other days held by Gerald O'Brien, a man who prided himself on being lineally descended from the celebrated King of Munster. His lady died in giving birth to twin sons, who were christened O'Kennedy O'Brien and O'Brien O'Brien and it was his highest ambition that the boys should excel in all things and be without equal amongst the sons of the rulers of the soil.
    As they grew in years, O'Kennedy O'Brien seemed to be the inheritor of all these mild

  16. Local Landlords

    “Garvey was the landlord of Ballyhogan and Kildangan.”

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    Garvey was the Landlord of Ballyhogan and Kildangan. He was looked upon as a bad landlord. Many evictions took place in the district. People named MacGraths of Dromineer were evicted. The were allowed back to their home again.
    Sometimes the people promised to pay money if they were left in their homes

  17. A Legend of Dromineer Castle

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    dishonoured by us? Are the laws of hospitality, which had always been kept sacred by our forefathers, to be violated by us? Trampled on, in sooth, because they accord not with thy notion of things, my gentle brother? The prejudices of every class of society, no matter in what degree they may be at variance with your individual feelings, must, if not respected, at least be borne with. The customs of a country should be ever particularly attended to by those who wish to live among the people to whom they have been handed down as a sort of heirloom from generation to generation! Never shall the peasant's wife instruct her prattling offspring to lisp the name of O'Brien O'Brien in abhorrence, nor the peasant stripling point me out as the tyrant contemner of the castle. You, O'Kennedy have the cowled monks and the surpliced Friars chanting Requiems over the inanimate body of our father; and such, I own, may be necessary." The old O'Brien was interred in the graveyard of Dromineer, with all the rude[?] pomp and ceremony befitting him; and the brothers did not return to the castle for a year.
    On their return both were changed; O'Kennedy was thoughtful and melancholy; O'Brien morose and stern. The former spent most of his time

  18. Local Roads

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    The road going from Puckane to Gleeson's cross or Kildangan cross is called Murray's road. This road got its name from a family named Murray who lived beside it.
    Ture i on [?] is the name of the road leading from Finn's cross in the townland of Ballyhogan to Knigh. Killawn road is the name given to the road leading from Leo's in the townland of Cushmona to Dromineer. Other roads are named after the townland in which they are.
    There are many old roads in the district. There is an old road going from Ballycoloton to the commons of Carney. It is called the Frolic lane There is another old road going from Knigh to Claree. It is not in use now. It is called the Blind Lane. There is another old road going from Killawn cross to "Hazel Point" and from that to

  19. Local Roads

    “Roads leading from one place to another are usually known from the name of the district they pass through.”

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    Clonmel, Dromineer Roads lead to the beautiful lake and the SIlvermines Road lead to a number of small villages.
    The Tyone Road is a very old road and the SIlvermines Road and Birr Road are also very old.
    At Cross Roads in this locality people gather together and dance for a few hours, another custom is to toss money which is mostly held by men.

  20. Tales of Buried Treasure

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    what more reasonable than to suppose the Danes came up the Shannon, landed somewhere round Dromineer, and tried to ford the river at this point within half a mile or of their objective.
    Father Gleeson in his history gives Castle Wellington Ballymackey as an Omeara Castle, but William Gleeson blacksmith Killowney now nearby, 86 years of age contradicts this and says it was an OKennedy Castle, that the Omeara Castle is the one on Murphys farm at Ballymackey.
    The Gleeson from whom & heard tales recorded on pages 35 to 36 died in 1894 aged 84.